Chamberlain shooting: Professor calls White Plains cops 'reckless'

11:31 PM,
Dec. 3, 2012

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A formal response to a review of the city Police Department commissioned by the city after the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. last year says police acted "with reckless abandonment" and that policies on the use of force and dealing with the emotionally disturbed need to be "critically analyzed."

"At best, the White Plains Police Department violated both their mission statement and their sacred oath of office by facilitating the death of Mr. Chamberlain," writes professor Jimmy Bell of Jackson State University's Criminal Justice and Sociology Department. Bell's four-page report was ...